News from around the 11 counties of the Diocese of Madison.
This past December, the United States bishops published a new pastoral letter on the topic of marriage, entitled “Marriage: Love & Life in the Divine Plan.”
In the document, the bishops celebrate married life and express their conviction that marriage is especially a blessing to the couple, their families, and society overall.
MADISON — The inaugural St. Paul’s University Catholic Center Wine Tasting was an opportunity to gather together current and former students, as well as others interested in aiding and expanding Catholic campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Is your marriage tearing you apart? Are you married to a stranger? Do you feel lost and alone?
With praise and thanksgiving to God, our Father, the Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, announces with joy the ordination to the priesthood of Jesus Christ of Rev. Mr. David Carrano and Rev. Mr. Gregory Ihm.
BELLEVILLE — The Belleville-area Catholic community is celebrating 100 years of existence this June.
In celebration, a potluck picnic for parishioners is planned following the 10:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, June 27, at St. Francis of Assisi church.
NEW ORLEANS, La. — The Catholic Herald, official newspaper of the Diocese of Madison, won four awards in the 2010 Catholic Press Awards competition sponsored by the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.
JEFFERSON — St. John the Baptist Parish in Jefferson recently held a combined celebration of the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the original church and the 40th anniversary of the ordination of Fr. Thomas J. Coyle, pastor.
MADISON — Deacons are all about service, “primarily the service of mercy,” Bishop Robert C. Morlino said in his homily at the Mass on Friday, May 28, at the Bishop O’Connor Center in which Jorge Miramontes and Tim Renz were ordained as transitional deacons for the Diocese of Madison.
MADISON — In the fall of 2009, the Diocese of Madison’s Office of Evangelization and Catechesis (OEC) started the new Seat of Wisdom Diocesan Institute (SOWDI), a program of catechetical certification and adult faith formation.
The City of Madison Plan Commission has approved a request by St. Ambrose Academy to teach as many as 140 students in the education wing of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish at 602 Everglade Dr.
